Informa Recognised As One Of UK's Top Employers
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| Britain's Top Employer Award |
Informa, leading international provider of specialist information, is recognised as one of Britain’s Top Employers 2008, according to the research conducted by CRF in conjunction with Guardian Books. Organisations all over Britain have been judged by a panel of experts for their performance in career development, pay and benefits, employee relations, knowledge management, diversity, leadership and CSR.
The judging panel particularly credited Informa for its work environment, where over 100 specialist units offer the 'security of working for a large organisation while retaining the freedom of movement expected from a small one'. Informa, the judges noted, is also pioneering the use of business strategy games to work in teams to come up with new business ideas, with the carrot of financial reward plus the chance to take the idea through to fruition.
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| Group HR Director Keith Brownlie (right) Accepting The Award |
Its strong reward processes, particularly its Transformed Careers career website, was also highlighted as the first of its kind in the media sector. The online competency framework offers information for employees and managers, such as the performance management and a careers centre, each showing the best ways to achieve professional goals. Employees get advice on how to map their career, review performance, set goals and learn how to handle interviews.
Originally created in the UK in 2005, the tool has now been re-launched in the virtual world of Second Life, aimed at making it easier for employees to get a clear idea of what’s involved in working in various job roles and in different divisions of the global company.
Keith Brownlie, Group HR and CR Director, says, "We are continually looking at new ways to attract and retain good employees, whether its improving our flexible benefits offering, creating a rewarding and open working environment or providing good training and mentoring. As a specialist information provider, we rely on our 10,000 global staff to satisfy our customers’ need for powerful information. In turn, our worldwide HR teams discuss and implement leading-edge practices to ensure we satisfy our employees’ professional needs. It’s a very exciting business, and we are enormously proud to receive this accolade."
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About Informa
Informa plc is the leading international provider of specialist information and services for the academic and scientific, professional and commercial business communities. Informa has over 100 offices in more than 40 countries and employs 10,000 staff around the world.
Informa is the largest publicly-owned organiser of conferences and courses in the world with an output of over 12,000 events annually. Informa publishes over 2,000 subscription-based information services including academic journals, real-time news and structured databases of commercial intelligence. Informa's book business has more than 40,000 academic and business titles in print.
